SKELLUM (6th S. vii. 413; viii. 357, 375).-The following quotation may prove of interest, as the word is put into the mouth of a Dutchman:"Vandal. Ic sal seg you, vader, ic came here to your huis, and spreak tol de dochterkin.

"Frisco. Master Mendall, you are welcome out of the basket. I smell a rat: it was not for nothing that you lost me.

"Vandal. O skellum! you run away from me." Englishmen for My Money; or, a Woman will "Have Her Will, 1616 (vol. x. p. 547, Dodsley's O. E. Plays, ed. Hazlitt).

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. By Henry Foley, S.J. Vol. VII., Part II. Collectanea completed with Appendices, Catalogues of Assumed and of Real Names, Annual Letters, Biographies and Miscellanea. (Burns & Oates.) WITH the publication of vol. vii. Mr. Foley brings to a close his arduous undertaking. When it is told that the last volume of his colossal work contains considerably over eighteen hundred pages, some idea of the nature of a task which has been accomplished in eight years of indefatigable labour may be formed. In the annals of study no record can be found of labour more severe, more sustained, and, it may be added, more remunerative. A mass of information carefully guarded, and to students inaccessible, has been brought within reach of the scholar. To the ecclesiastical historian Mr. Foley's work most directly appeals. It is likely to prove invaluable, however, to all concerned in genealogical pursuits and the byways generally of history. Two authorities, which have come but recently within Mr. Foley's reach, have enabled him to complete the second appendix to the "Collectanea." First of these is a MS. entitled "Catalogus Primorum Patrum et Fratrum Soc. Jes. ex Anglia, collectis ex variis Libris et Catalogis MS. in Archiv. Rom.," &c. This authentic and valuable document contains brief accounts of nearly one hundred and twenty English members of the Society of Jesus from 1556 to 1590, many of them hitherto unknown. Among these is found a remarkable person, John Castell, born at Bodmin about 1546. He had been M.P. in 1571, was a student in the Middle Temple, an excellent English poet, and well versed in Greek, Latin, and philosophy. He was a voluntary exile for his religion, for which he had likewise suffered torture upon the rack and chains. He died in Portugal in 1580, six years after entering the Society.

A second and only less valuable source of information consists of a copy of the register of the English College of the Society of Jesus, St. Alban's, Valladolid. From this are derived the names of many early English Jesuits which do not figure in the English Province catalogues. The biographical notices of members of the English Province are carried down to a very recent period. The annual letters, ranging from the year 1601 to 1615, give a store of information on curious details and

statistics gathered from original MSS. in the archives of the Society of Jesus in Rome, and from facts and data communicated by the missionary priests of the Society then working in England. These, again, are supplemented to a much more recent date by the annals of the English Jesuit colleges in Belgium. St. Omer, Liège, and Ghent, and of the Novitiate at Watten, than which no information could be more particular, more domestic, or more trustworthy. Such varied subjects are treated of as the numbers of the students, their scholastic exercises, their recreations and representations of religious drama, and the relationships in which the alumni stood to their masters and prefects. Even the daily life of the novices is naturally unfolded in the historical notices of Watten.

One very marked feature of the addenda is a memoir, from the pen of Father Stevenson, of William Elphinston, a novice of the Society and member of the well-known Scotch family, which, besides its own title of nobility, claimed relationship with the Bishop Elphinston still held in honour by the University of Aberdeen as the founder of King's College.

Interesting information is given relative to the Vatican College of Penitentiaries, consisting in 1570 of one cardinal and eleven priests, appointed to hear confessions in the various foreign languages. It was enlarged, and a body of twelve Jesuit fathers, under a rector, was assigned by Pius V. to the Vatican Basilica for hearing confessions in all the known European languages, with some others.

A unique addition to this volume is the alphabetical catalogue of real names and aliases, never, we believe, attempted before. It furnishes the student of that period of history a new means of identifying names and persons, and of clearing up many confused points, and is given in distinct lists of true and adopted names in convenient juxtaposition, with references to the lives of each member. Evidence to rebut the charge that the Society has been always anxious to involve its history in mystery is thus supplied.

A chronological catalogue of the Irish Province of the Society of Jesus from the earliest times forms a final and valuable appendix by itself. Mr. Foley's alphabetical index of seventy pages is a model of dry, persevering labour. Would that all books of reference were equally well provided!

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins. By Robert Paltock, of Clement's Inn. With a Preface by A. H. Bullen. 2 vols. (Reeves & Turner.)

MR. A. H. BULLEN is one of our youngest editors; he is also one of the best. In addition to the industry and accuracy which are indispensable to an editor, he has keen poetical appreciation and insight, and a flair which always leads him right. The works he has given to the world are already dear to scholars. To these he has now added a reprint of The Adventures of Peter Wilkins. Without being an absolute rarity, since between the appearance of the first edition in 1750 and that of a mutilated version in 1844 half a dozen different editions saw the light, Peter Wilkins is far from common, and the appearance of a copy in a catalogue always provokes competition. Of the minor works to which the success of Robinson Crusoe gave rise, Peter Wilkins is the best. It is a favourite with all readers of taste, and has been, as Mr. Bullen states in his short preface, translated into French and German. Coleridge speaks of it, according to report, as "a work of uncommon beauty," Charles Lamb describes it as among the classics of his boyish days, and Leigh Hunt waxes eloquent in its praise. Such evidence in its favour is, of course, acceptable, but the book speaks for itself. It is now brought within

the reach of all readers in an edition that is a model of taste and beauty. The book is not a facsimile, for paper and type such as are now employed were not commen in 1750. It reproduces faithfully, however, the title pages, the text, and the quaint and delightful illustrations. What is more to the point, it is unmutilated. With commendable courage, Mr. Bullen declines to cut out the marriage scenes between Wilkins and the fair Youwarkee. A man who would cut out these would excise the scenes of a like nature from Paradise Lost. One is scarcely purer than the other. Editor and publisher have conferred a boon on letters in reprinting in such a form this delightful book, the first volume of which is among the most fanciful and attractive in the language.

The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oliver Goldsmith. With Preface and Notes by Austin Dobson. (Kegan Paul & Co.) NEVER, surely, was a classic more fitted than the Vicar of Wakefield to appear in the "Parchment Series" of Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co., and never was an editor more in sympathy with his work than Mr. Austin Dobson. A book the hold of which on mankind has not relaxed, and will not soon relax, appears now in the most fitting shape it has yet received. Mr. Dobson's preface and notes, meanwhile, form a charmingly discursive and readable comment.

IN the Third Series of Rambles by the Ribble (Preston, Dobson; London, Simpkin & Marshall) Mr. William Dobson tells us of Hoghton Tower and its royal visitor, James I.; of Hothersall and its "boggart"; and of Sam lesbury, where the original site of the church was traditionally altered by "goblin builders," who objected, and removed the stones during the night, while the village was subsequently famous for witches, who "did take her senses and money" from a girl, temp. Jac. I.! Among other points of interest to our readers, we may mention that Mr. Dobson gives a good deal of information about various branches of the ancient Lancashire family of Winckley of Winckley, concerning whom we gave a "Notice to Correspondents," 5th S. xii. 420, embracing details of the family, temp. Edw. I. to 1664-5. There is matter for the botanist and the student of folk-lore, as well as for the antiquary and genealogist, in Mr. Dobson's new and pleasant Rambles by the Ribble.

THE Library Journal, Vol. VIII., Nos. 9 and 10 (New York, F. Leypoldt), contains a full and interesting report of the Buffalo Conference of the American Library Association. It is difficult to select out of so large a mass of valuable matter, but we may note that Mr. Cutter presents us with a new "Arrangement of the Parts of the United States in an Historical and Geographical System of Classification." Mr. Cutter's arrangement is a modification

of that suggested by Mr. Gannett, "Geografer" of the

United States Census Office, and whereas Mr. Gannett divided the United States into three groups by means of three perpendicular lines or bands, Mr. Cutter subdivides into six groups, and assigns numbers and letters to the several States and Territories and their principal towns, the letter being that of their initial. Thus Mr. Cutter would represent New York State by No. 67, Buffalo by 67B 8, where 67-State of New York, B=initial | letter of Buffalo, 8 a distinguishing mark from other towns in the same state having the same initial, such as Brooklyn, which appears as 67 B 7. The report on "Libraries and Schools," by Mr. Samuel S. Green, of Worcester, Mass., contains many interesting details of the way in which American public libraries aid the cause of education. The extracts from diaries kept by 'apprentices" of the Normal School, who are pupils

learning to be teachers, are sometimes amusing, from the naïveté of the entries. We cannot say that we are believers in the keeping of diaries, least of all in the obligation to keep them. But we like the touch of nature in such an entry as the following:-"A flower was brought to-day to illustrate the poem the pupils are learning, Jack in the Pulpit.' All examined it, or said they did; the boys were most curious." We need scarcely say that the italics are ours. The great question of "Fiction in Public Libraries" was again to the fore, as was also the still greater question of the "A. L. A. Catalog" of the future. which we hope to live to see on our table. The decision of the place of meeting for 1884 seems to hover between Toronto, St. Louis, and New Haven, a tolerably wide area for choice, as to which we will not infringe upon the privileges of the executive committee by any suggestions of our own.

WE have received vol. xix. of the St. Bartholomew's

Hospital Reports, being the volume for the year 1883. notes of cases from hospital practice, it contains a short In addition to several valuable papers and interesting memoir of James Shuter, late assistant-surgeon to the hospital.

THE new number of the Church Quarterly contains a readable and suggestive essay, by the Rev. A. Smythe Palmer, on the miracle at Beth-horon, a philological argument for a new interpretation of the sun standing still, Joshua x.

"LEGENDS OF THE SYNAGOGUE," in All the Year Round, supplies some curious information of interest to many readers of " N. & Q."-" Two Minor Characters: Peter and the Apothecary," which appears in the Cornhill Magazine, is a striking piece of Shakspearian criticism.

MR. R. L. STEVENSON contributes to the English Illustrated Magazine some whimsical fancies on "The Character of Dogs," which are no less whimsically illustrated by Mr. R. Caldecott.

Magazine contains the first of a series of " THE February number of Mr. Walford's Antiquarian Gleanings from the past History of our Public Schools," entitled "Shooting for the Silver Arrow at Harrow." The next will treat of " Eton Montem."

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